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Fire-Up your Firefox
 
Simple tweaks that can help you attain that most-wanted speed with your Firefox browser
 
Rahul Gupta
4/7/2008

Ever felt that inspite of having a fast broadband connection, your normal day-to-day Internet browsing speeds are not quite up to the mark? Trusty old Firefox can help with this. With a little bit of elbow grease and little know-how, you can use these tweaks that can really speed up Firefox. Enough so that you can actually browse the Internet at the speeds that you pay for.

Here's what to do:
1: Open Firefox.
2: In the address bar, type 'about:config' and press enter (this will bring up the configuration menu where you can change the working parameters ).
3: Find all the values given in the box one by one and change their values as mentioned. (Double click on the settings and put in the numbers in the pop-up window. For the true / false booleans, their values change when you click on them).
4 Add a new configuration value, for that Right-click in any blank area on that same screen and select > NEW > Integer from the pop-up menu that appears on the screen.
5: Name it as 'nglayout.initialpaint. delay' and set its value to 0 (this value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives from the website server).

Now after changing the settings close the browser window(You can also check the settings that have changed with the screenshot below) and restart the computer. You'll definitely notice that your Firefox browser is now much faster. Just check our before and after speed tests that we did using the same internet connection on the www.speedtest.net website.

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs true

 network.http.max-connections 48

 network.http.max-connections-per-server 16

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 8


network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 4

 network.http.pipelining true

 network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 100

 network.http.proxy.pipelining true

 network.http.request.timeout 300




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